Sentences with phrase «as lemur»

After their divergence from New World monkeys such as lemur, Old World monkey Dazl duplicated and gave rise to DAZ [55].

By acting as the lemur's worst nightmare, the fossa helps maintain the island's blissful natural balance.

As lemur researcher Alison Jolly puts it: «The world of Madagascar tells us which rules would still hold true if time had once broken its banks and flowed to the present down a different channel.»

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He has previously served as a director of Highfield Resources, Lemur Resources and Nemex Resources.

Get rid and go all out for Lemur as a CM and Mahrez as a winger.

Join the game of jungle hide - and - seek as Mama JoJo tries to find her baby lemur, Jazzy.

April 4: Morgan Freeman narrates as viewers journey to Madagascar with Island of Lemurs, in Imax theaters today.

Using genetic material extracted from lemur bones and teeth dating back 550 to 5,600 years, an international team of researchers analyzed DNA from as many as 23 individuals from each of five extinct lemur species that died out after human arrival.

Since humans first arrived here 1,500 years ago, 17 species of lemur have died out, as well as multitudes of other species.

As Dollar talked, the camp mascot — a common brown lemur named Piper — leapt up onto his lap for a scratching.

TAKE one look at a flying lemur, or colugo, as it glides through the forest canopy and you see where it gets its name.

As if rampant deforestation and poaching weren't bad enough, climate change will have a devastating effect on the majority of Madagascar's lemur species, most of them already imperiled, according to a paper published this week in Ecology and Evolution.

Sauther said the fact that ring - tailed lemurs are ecologically adaptable and capable of surviving and thriving in harsh habitats is an indication that many other lemur species in Madagascar — as many as three - quarters of the roughly 100 species that reside there — are in dire straits.

Lemurs vocalize to essentially «groom - at - a-distance» and keep in touch when the group members they're closest with get separated such as when foraging for food, said first author Ipek Kulahci, who received her Ph.D. in ecology and evolutionary biology from Princeton.

Until recently, the only primate known to hibernate as a survival strategy was a creature called the western fat - tailed dwarf lemur, a tropical tree - dweller from the African island of Madagascar.

Whether you grow up as a hunter - gatherer in Africa or a modern - day human in Sarasota or a baby lemur in the forest, you seem to have these simple capacities.

The mouse lemur — the world's smallest primate — has the potential to transform the field of genetics and serve as an ideal model for a wide range of primate biology, behavior and medicine, including cardiovascular disease and Alzheimer's disease, Stanford University School of Medicine researchers say.

An analysis of the greater bamboo lemur's current distribution on the island of Madagascar compared to its distribution in the past, as inferred from fossils, suggests that the lemurs used to live over a broader range.

It is known as the «koala lemur» because its short limbs evolved for climbing through trees.

Although the term lemur was first intended for slender lorises, it was soon limited to the endemic Malagasy primates, which have been known as lemurs

David Douglas and Drew Fellman, the filmmakers behind Born to be Wild and Island of Lemurs: Madagascar, directed the film, which Fellman wrote and produced, with Douglas as director of photography.

of Lemurs: Madagascar (G) Morgan Freeman narrates this endangered species documentary, shot in IMAX 3D, offering a spectacular peek at lemurs» struggle to survive as civilization continues to encroach on their natural habitat.

Opening April 4th, the exciting new IMAX 3D documentary, «Island of Lemurs: Madagascar,» takes audiences on a spectacular journey to the remote and wondrous world of Madagascar, where lemurs arrived millions of years ago as...

The DVD includes all those as well as trailers for The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, Island of Lemurs: Madagascar,

A monkey is not a failed ape, a lemur is not a failed monkey, a mouse is not a failed primate, a fish is not a failed mammal (and as I shall show you later, there is no such thing as a fish) and insects, nematode worms, corals and priapulids are not failed vertebrates.

The lemur - like primate — scientific name Darwinius masillae, nickname «Ida» — is being hailed as the missing link; not necessarily our direct ancestor, but a member perched on a neighboring branch of the family tree.

Book Lemur is a book promo group that runs a 12,000 strong email subscriber list, as well as an additional 6,000 + fans on their Book Lemur Facebook page.

*** SPECIAL NEEDS, COMES WITH WHEELS *** Cameron is a Chihuahua Doxie mix or as we like to call him part Lemur part Merman.

There is no more unique landscape on earth in which to discover exotic wildlife as you explore the rainforests, nature reserves and national parks in search of the many species of endangered lemur.

This is a metroidvania with some Shadow of the Colossus vibes to it, where you play as a glowing... lemur?

Den is a very short but very satisfying little game created for Ludum Dare 38 in which you control a massive fox - cat - wolf - lemur - ferret monster as it eats people and attempts to escape from a facility.

Sometimes, as in the claggy monochrome scarlet expanses that comprise Red Painting, Bird, Lemur and Elephant (2016) this is directly slathered on with the artist's hands — a massive Color Field finger - painting.

«Several species of lemurs, monkeys and apes — such as the ring - tailed lemur, Udzunga red colobus monkey, Yunnan snub - nosed monkey, white - headed langur and Grauer's gorilla — are down to a population of a few thousand individuals.